Buoyancy 1942

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Buoyancy.

M/S as a balloon floats upwards, M/S of a row of barrage balloons. A woman checks her suspender belt. M/S of ladies in diaphanous dresses, looks like the same girl superimposed. M/S of Ivor the imp in a test tube, he floats to the top. Diagrams show how gravity affects ice and tin....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
58696
Sort Number:
NSP 313
Time in/Out:
01:10:42:00 / 01:13:13:00
Canister:
NSP 313
Film ID:
1544.06
Issue Date:
30/03/1942

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